Apple's iPad, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, and HP's Slate 500 are often mentioned as competing in
the same slate tablets space.
Not exact matches
Amazon, too, is
slated to refresh its
tablet lineup with new devices around the
same time, while Google's New Nexus 7 has already reached markets.
Decked out in all white, the
tablet features the
same rounded corners and ultrathin bezels as Samsung's
slate.
It appears to be the
same Android
slate as Barnes & Noble's current $ 249
Tablet, but with less onboard storage (matching the Fire's 8 GB) and what will very likely be a correspondingly lower price.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 will sell for the
same $ 399 come May 13th and bring some capabilities that Apple's
tablet — and other Android
slates — lack.
Yet, while the ASP of the iPad has been falling — as buyers shift their cash to Apple's smaller, lower cost
slate — the ASP of the rest of
tablet market has increased 17 percent over the
same period.
Aside from the rumored new 10.5 - inch sized
tablet and another new 9.7 - inch variant iPad, sources say the Apple iPad Pro 2 will be
slated for release later this year, around the
same time.
The Acer Iconia W700 US price has made it out in the open and based on the release date details provided by the company, the
slate will launch on the very
same day the Windows 8 Pro-based Microsoft Surface
tablet hits availability status.
The
Tablet 2 is powered by an Intel Atom processor, which may be the latest 32nm Clover Trail generation, but will still struggle to deliver the
same sort of oomph that you'd get from the Ivy Bridge
slates that others are producing.
This
tablet runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and sports the
same 9.7 - inch 1024 x 768 pixel display as Apple's 1st - and 2nd - gen
slate.
Today, Chinese blog chinadiy published a bunch of high - res pictures of an unannounced Nvidia Tegra Note
tablet, which might be the
same 7 - inch
slate spotted earlier this week.
The Amazon Fire
tablet looks rather like one of those prototype
slates you occasionally see in blurry screenshots taken in foreign labs — and in the hand it feels much the
same as you suspect one of those devices might.
The 110w is a 10 inch Windows 7
tablet from MSI, one of the two
slates that the company introduced during CeBIT and running on the
same OS.
The
same goes for the
tablet's palm rejection — the ability for the
slate to detect stylus input while your hand rests on the screen.
The affordable Galaxy ON and ON Max smartphones that Samsung is selling in India will receive the
same treatment, as will the company's five last major
tablet releases, with the Galaxy Tab Active S2 and Galaxy Tab A (2016) being the oldest Samsung - made
slates currently planned for an Android 8.0 Oreo upgrade.
This gives the
tablets the
same abilities as the retailer's Echo range of smart speakers, although audio quality from the
slates won't be as good as the dedicated devices.